The banking industry has reached a crossroad. The customers have seemingly ubiquitous access to their accounts on their terms and on their devices. How banks and credit unions manage that experience and deliver based on their customers' requirements will dictate levels of success. The technology available has changed to address this customer-led revolution, yet there are still many more changes yet realized. All this new technology has also created perpetual growth in transaction volumes and is pushing the limits and skill sets of business units, marketers, and IT personnel.

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The Customer-Centric Bank Strategies provides critical analysis of the opportunities and options facing banks as they wrestle with their technology plans and investment decisions in alignment with their strategic goals. This research delivers key insights regarding the business drivers of and value delivered from customer-facing banking technology investments.

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

What are the IT strategies that are most relevant managing the customer relationship for banks and credit unions?

Who are the major vendors of customer-facing banking solutions, and what differentiates them?

What tools are banks using to service customers and to manage and develop customer relationships?

How are banks balancing customer behavior and social media activity as it relates to consumer privacy concerns?

What do customers want from their banks? How do they choose to interact with banks, and which delivery strategies are banks employing?

What is the maturity model used to dictate where banks and credit unions are when looking at their delivery model?

What is the level of satisfaction customers have with their bank, and what are the experiences that foster a more positive level of satisfaction?

What are the trends impacting the industry that impact short-term and long-term customer-facing decisions?

What strategies are banks using to enhance consumer delivery channels?

How should banks prioritize investments in channels as they build a foundation for the bank of the future?

How will new devices drive new product development?

What is the role of the physical channel as the digital channels continue to garnish the most attention and investment?

How does the macroeconomic state of the economy and the banking system impact investments in the IT and consumer banking strategies?

Who Should Subscribe

Financial institutions and technology vendors that support them use our research to guide their internal investment decisions, help them plan for future technology needs, benchmark the competition, and stay current on solution offerings. We also provide clients an open dialog with our expert analysts to support key fintech investment strategies.

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Core Benefits

Concise guidance on IT trends and challenges in customer strategies, delivery channel infrastructure, or enterprise technologies and compliance

Analysis of consumer banking providers/solutions

Strategic advice on enhancing value to customers through technology

Distinct extension of internal market research to validate market strategies

Guidance for more responsive, customer-centric marketing campaigns

Competitive positioning and recommended partnerships

Standard Subscription Deliverables

IDC Financial Insights values building client relationships and strives to foster a partnership with each client through continuous analyst interaction; timely delivery of current, concise, and relevant research; as well as custom research when needed. Each advisory service delivers strategic research covering business and technology issues. A summary of the basic service deliverables available to subscribers includes the following:

Related offerings to our industry-specific research practices include IT Spending Guides — segmented regional and country-level analysis by solution area; Go-to-Market Services (GMS) — a modular set of deliverables to assist clients in extending their market reach, validating their market strategy, and producing more responsive customer-centric marketing campaigns; and IDC Advisory Tools — a growing set of solutions designed to ensure clients that technology purchasing and deployment decisions are optimized. In addition, IDC Financial Insights experts are available for individualized consulting engagements to address specific challenges or to customize the results of our syndicated research offerings.